linux.git/Documentation/power, branch v2.6.37

PM / Runtime: Fix pm_runtime_suspended()

2010-12-16T16:12:25+00:00

There are some situations (e.g. in __pm_generic_call()), where
pm_runtime_suspended() is used to decide whether or not to execute
a device's (system) ->suspend() callback.  The callback is not
executed if pm_runtime_suspended() returns true, but it does so
for devices that don't even support runtime PM, because the
power.disable_depth device field is ignored by it.  This leads to
problems (i.e. devices are not suspened when they should), so rework
pm_runtime_suspended() so that it returns false if the device's
power.disable_depth field is different from zero.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Cc: stable@kernel.org

PM / OPP: Hide OPP configuration when SoCs do not provide an implementation

2010-11-11T00:51:26+00:00

Since the OPP API is only useful with an appropraite SoC-specific
implementation there is no point in offering the ability to enable
the API on general systems. Provide an ARCH_HAS OPP Kconfig symbol
which masks out the option unless selected by an implementation.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown 
Acked-by: Nishanth Menon 
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman 
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

PM: Introduce library for device-specific OPPs (v7)

2010-10-16T23:57:50+00:00

SoCs have a standard set of tuples consisting of frequency and
voltage pairs that the device will support per voltage domain. These
are called Operating Performance Points or OPPs. The actual
definitions of OPP varies over silicon versions. For a specific domain,
we can have a set of {frequency, voltage} pairs. As the kernel boots
and more information is available, a default set of these are activated
based on the precise nature of device. Further on operation, based on
conditions prevailing in the system (such as temperature), some OPP
availability may be temporarily controlled by the SoC frameworks.

To implement an OPP, some sort of power management support is necessary
hence this library depends on CONFIG_PM.

Contributions include:
Sanjeev Premi for the initial concept:
	http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/50998/
Kevin Hilman for converting original design to device-based.
Kevin Hilman and Paul Walmsey for cleaning up many of the function
abstractions, improvements and data structure handling.
Romit Dasgupta for using enums instead of opp pointers.
Thara Gopinath, Eduardo Valentin and Vishwanath BS for fixes and
cleanups.
Linus Walleij for recommending this layer be made generic for usage
in other architectures beyond OMAP and ARM.
Mark Brown, Andrew Morton, Rafael J. Wysocki, Paul E. McKenney for
valuable improvements.

Discussions and comments from:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=126033945313269&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=125482970102327&w=2
http://marc.info/?t=125809247500002&r=1&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=126025973426007&w=2
http://marc.info/?t=128152609200064&r=1&w=2
http://marc.info/?t=128468723000002&r=1&w=2
incorporated.

v1: http://marc.info/?t=128468723000002&r=1&w=2

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon 
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman 
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

PM: Add sysfs attr for rechecking dev hash from PM trace

2010-10-16T23:57:50+00:00

If the device which fails to resume is part of a loadable kernel module
it won't be checked at startup against the magic number stored in the
RTC.

Add a read-only sysfs attribute /sys/power/pm_trace_dev_match which
contains a list of newline separated devices (usually just the one)
which currently match the last magic number. This allows the device
which is failing to resume to be found after the modules are loaded
again.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan 
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

PM / Runtime: Implement autosuspend support

2010-10-16T23:57:48+00:00

This patch (as1427) implements the "autosuspend" facility for runtime
PM.  A few new fields are added to the dev_pm_info structure and
several new PM helper functions are defined, for telling the PM core
whether or not a device uses autosuspend, for setting the autosuspend
delay, and for marking periods of device activity.

Drivers that do not want to use autosuspend can continue using the
same helper functions as before; their behavior will not change.  In
addition, drivers supporting autosuspend can also call the old helper
functions to get the old behavior.

The details are all explained in Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
and Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern 
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

PM / Runtime: Add no_callbacks flag

2010-10-16T23:57:47+00:00

Some devices, such as USB interfaces, cannot be power-managed
independently of their parents, i.e., they cannot be put in low power
while the parent remains at full power.  This patch (as1425) creates a
new "no_callbacks" flag, which tells the PM core not to invoke the
runtime-PM callback routines for the such devices but instead to
assume that the callbacks always succeed.  In addition, the
non-debugging runtime-PM sysfs attributes for the devices are removed,
since they are pretty much meaningless.

The advantage of this scheme comes not so much from avoiding the
callbacks themselves, but rather from the fact that without the need
for a process context in which to run the callbacks, more work can be
done in interrupt context.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern 
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

PM / Hibernate: Make default image size depend on total RAM size

2010-10-16T23:57:43+00:00

The default hibernation image size is currently hard coded and euqal
to 500 MB, which is not a reasonable default on many contemporary
systems.  Make it equal 2/5 of the total RAM size (this is slightly
below the maximum, i.e. 1/2 of the total RAM size, and seems to be
generally suitable).

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Tested-by: M. Vefa Bicakci

PM / Hibernate: Compress hibernation image with LZO

2010-10-16T23:57:42+00:00

Compress hibernation image with LZO in order to save on I/O and
therefore time to hibernate/thaw.

[rjw: Added hibernate=nocompress command line option instead of just
 nocompress which would be confusing, fixed a couple of compiler
 warnings, fixed kerneldoc comments, minor cleanups.]

Signed-off-by: Bojan Smojver 
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

regulator: Update e-mail address for Liam Girdwood

2010-09-01T11:59:34+00:00

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown 
Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood

Documentation: update broken web addresses.

2010-08-04T13:21:40+00:00

Below you will find an updated version from the original series bunching all patches into one big patch
updating broken web addresses that are located in Documentation/*
Some of the addresses date as far far back as 1995 etc... so searching became a bit difficult,
the best way to deal with these is to use web.archive.org to locate these addresses that are outdated.
Now there are also some addresses pointing to .spec files some are located, but some(after searching
on the companies site)where still no where to be found. In this case I just changed the address
to the company site this way the users can contact the company and they can locate them for the users.

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber 
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger 
Cc: Paulo Marques 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Michael Neuling 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina